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Bishop and Chapter in Twelfth-century England

A Study of the 'Mensa Episcopalis'

  • Paperback
  • 468 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 2.7 cm

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For historians and students of medieval England

Uncovers the complexities of church governance and power

You will gain insights into ecclesiastical history's impact

This book explores the political and economic ties between bishops and their cathedral clergy in twelfth-century England.

This book is the first detailed examination on a comparative basis of the economic and political relations between the bishops and their cathedral clergy in England during the century and a half after the Conquest. In particular, it is a study of the structure and historical development of the mensal endowments and the redistribution of wealth which led, in the course of time, to the establishment of the chapter as a largely independent body with substantial political power. A description of the constitutional importance of the mensa and its treatment in recent scholarly writing is followed by a discussion of property rights and liberties in the church and the role of the bishop in ecclesiastical and civil government. The core of the book consists of an analysis based on contemporary sources of the episcopal and capitular organisation in each of the ten monastic and seven secular sees.
Bishop and Chapter in Twelfth-century England and Bishop and Chapter in Twelfth-Century England
Bishop and Chapter in Twelfth-Century EnglandBishop and Chapter in Twelfth-century England

  • Title

    Bishop and Chapter in Twelfth-century England

  • Author

    Everett U. Crosby (university Of Virginia)

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    October 2003

  • Weight

    591g

  • Page Count

    468

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 2.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521521840

  • ISBN-10

    052152184X

  • Eden Code

    1151587

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